The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-14
HONORS TO THE DEAD.

aONOfSS TO THE DEAD
Scenes Along Milwaukee Avenue Previous to
the Moving of the Procession.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 The funeral services of
the five dead Anarchists-Spies, Parsons. Fisch-
er, Engel and Louis Lingg-were held to-day.
Probably half a million people in the city of
their terrible crime the last public prepara
tions for the final journey to the tomb. Scarcely
more than half the number expected, seven
thousand men and two hundred and fifty women,
aided in the city by forming in procession
behind them. Ten thousand people were pres
ent in the barest, emptiest graveyard adjacent
to Chicago when the corpses at length were hid
den. Mutsered curses and bitter murmurs and
a cry of Throttle the law" accompanied the
parting words spoken over the five lifeless
bodies.
1t was, almost to a second, the exact time
that, forty eight hours before the scaffold drop
fell with August Spies and his comrades, that
to day the blaekest of hearses drew up at the
door of his relatives. More peculiar still was
the fact that the hearse was just ready to start
at the precise moment corresponding to the an
nouncement az the gallows that Spies had
ceased to breathe. This was the be-
ginning of the obsequies. The scene
was at the extreme northwestern corner of
the city, and the route taken resembled
nothing much a monster black snake
stretching right to the center of Chicago and
protruding out and beyond the furthsst south
western angle. The lines OF blackness were
formed Of human beings wedged together into
almost a single continuous whole. Of from
Milwaukee avenue, Spies lived in little oasis
Of well-to-do Americans and Germans. while the
others entombed to-day had places of abode scat
Tor ir<o at E-ao civ
the same thoroughfare. but n the midst of the
most ignorant and uncouth classes of Chicagos
foreign born population.
About fonr thousans persons. most of them
neghbors of the Spieses. were congregated OF
the street and sidewalks Of the block Ia which
Spies lived when the time for departure arrived
AS at the other houses where the Anarchists
bodies lay constant stream of mourners or
curious sight-seers had beeu since almost day
light, pouring through the buildings and view
ing the iivid remains. or gazing at the weeping
relatives. When the forry-eght hours ami
versary of the scaffold drop had come, ard the
somber hearse was standing patiently at the
curb the tall form of Captain Black, tie An
archists' chief counsel seen stepping
out through the throng at the Spies
threshold. Supported on his arm,
and with head pillowed on his
shoulder. was a c,inging, girlish figure clad in
Grape from head to foot-a picture of utter woe.
The face was completely vsiled from sight In
stantly the whisper was heard every side,
"There she is; there's Nina Van Zandt;" 'that's
SpieAs wife" 1t not till the coffin had been
placed il tn hearse and the immediate mourn
ers had entered the carriages, and five hundred
blue badged Turner's had formed in ranks ahead,
that the crowd discovered its mistake. Calmly
seated in the first carriage. without one sign of
mourning in her appearance or a single trace of
grief in her pale. set face, Miss Van Zaudt
The countenance unmistakably that
of Spess youthful proxy bride,
but it had suddenly acquired a dignity
and matureness that gave unlooked-for but
far from repellent aspect to one Of her years
Aside from this expression the features wore a
peculiar yellowish pallor. 1t may have been
a mere fancy of the observer, but those who
the face of Spies as he strobe to his place on the
gallows say the palor oa his countenance then
was exactly like that today on the face OF Nina
Van Zandt. She was appareled in a we'll worn
fur-trimmed wrap of dark wine-colored or pur-
pie velvet, very simply made dress of black
silk and small, neat brown-feathered bonnet
to match the wrap. While the crowds were
covering from their surprise at Miss Van Zandt's
demeanor and dress. the black-clad girl
same carriage with Spies's proxy wife threw back
her veil and disclosed the tear stained features
of the dead mans sister Gretchen. Alongside
of Miss Van Zandt, and listening eagerly at
times to her words of gorifcatiou of Spies, was
tine Anarchists aged mother. There were hard
lines in her face. but she seemed to have COM
mand of her grief
at this moment the mournfu MUSIC of dirge
away to the front was heard and the cortege
was on its way to the grave. Down Milwaukee
avenue between such multitudes
either side as rever before gathered
those walks and pavements, the procession
marched more slowly and solemnly than
Friday when the Anarchists went to the gallows.
1t took ND, with somewhat similar scenes. the
body of Fischer. then Parsons. and afterward
those of Linee and Eneel. With each there was
a great accession to the cortege. and as it pro-
ceeded the masses of on-lookers became still
more dense The line of march if defscted
north as much as it was afterward turned south,
would nave led almost into the location of the
Anarchist gallows. but at the of Des-
PLANES street there was quick change of front
and the procession seemed headed direct for the
Haymarket.
Striking Features of the Procession.
CHICAGO. Nov. 13-The most striking view of
the procession to-day was obtained at the corner
of Lake and Desplaines streets. for it brought
80 vividly to mind the scenes of May 4, 1856.
when the bomb WAS thrown. It was just 145
o'clock when the head Of the line reached the
spot. At the cornsr is the saloon and hall OF
Charles Zepf. ths Anarchist. 1t was to this
saloon that Parsons took his wife and children
after he had finished his speech at the Hay
market, and where they sat when the
bomb thrown. Two hundred feet south
of the corner was the place where stood the wagon
from which Spies and his comrades delivered
their harangues and counseled the throttling of
the law. And here. too. the alley from
which the hissing and fatal bomb was hurled
into the ranks of the police. A little further
south is the spot where the missile fell and did
such awful Obstruction. WAS it by accident or